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Cats pursuing Georgia commit Glass

Justin Rowland
Special to CatsIllustrated.com

In this day and age a verbal commitment doesn't always mean so much. Kentucky's new coaching staff understands that and recruits as though everyone is fair game until Signing Day.

Truth be told that's how everyone is recruiting these days. But Kentucky's current staff has been especially aggressive in continuing to target players that have verbally pledged elsewhere.

That's just fine with four-star safety Nick Glass, one of the nation's top defensive backs. Glass has been committed to Georgia for exactly one year but he has kept the lines of communication open with other schools.

Kentucky is one of the schools he's in regular contact with.

"We talk every day," Glass said. "I talk to coach (Derrick) Ansley and coach (Bradley Dale) Peveto a lot. I like them a lot from when coach Ansley was at Tennessee and I know coach Peveto was at LSU.

"(Peveto) recruited a player from my school, Kevin Minter. I don't know if he coached him or not but he's going into the draft. I've got a lot of respect for those guys. I don't know much about Kentucky but I like the coaching staff and I'm hearing it's in a great town."

When asked how solid he is with Georgia, Glass simply replied, "I don't know."

Sometimes that's tough to explain. Some days he feels more solid than others. With schools all ove the SEC still recruiting him it's tough to project what the future might hold.

Tennessee, Ole Miss, Alabama, Auburn and LSU are the other SEC schools still recruiting the Bulldog commit.

"I've been to Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia," Glass said. "And I'm visiting Ole Miss and Kentucky soon. I'm visiting Ole Miss from Friday to Monday and I think Kentucky from Wednesday to Saturday."

The 6-foot-1, 196-pound safety is a four-star prospect and ranked the No. 23 player at his position in the nation by Rivals.com. He has run the 40-yard dash in 4.49 seconds, has run a 4.12-second shuttle has a registered vertical leap of 35 inches.

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